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MYOTHERAPY –
Our lead practitioner and clinic owner, Zara, is trained in a specialised field of orthopaedic acupuncture, called Musculoskeletal Acupuncture.
Every skeletal muscle has a motor point, these are points where motor nerves innervate from the spine to activate a muscle. This is essentially what causes your muscle to either contract or relax.
A muscle can become inhibited from injury/trauma, overuse, incorrect posture etc. When it is inhibited, the muscle is not ‘firing’ correctly, and the motor point message from the spine to the muscle is no longer a smooth signal.
Musculoskeletal Acupuncture aims to restore this signal, to ‘jump start’ or ‘reset’ the inhibition and restore optimal function. By stimulating the motor nerve, we encourage the muscle to ‘reset’ to its anatomically appropriate length/state of tension. This can allow for more blood flow, eased inflammation, increased range of motion and reduced pain.
Musculoskeletal Acupuncture sessions involves a full case history of your injury, including manual muscle testing and palpation, postural and range of motion assessment. The treatment will then include some massage/soft tissue work as hands-on palpation further allows your practitioner to identify inhibited and knotted tissues.
From here, the muscles that are ‘inhibited, knotted, tense etc.’ have a gentle low-frequency micro-current via the acupuncture needle to influence the motor nerve of the muscles. This is a very safe, very controlled method and is often only applied for a few seconds to minutes.
You will rest for a small amount of time under the infrared heat lamps to encourage further blood flow into the tense muscular areas. Once the practitioner returns, more massage is often performed in addition to other ancillary tools if indicated such as cupping, dry needling etc.
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